In researching Thargoid jumpdrive technology, the first breakthrough was discovered by accident. I was a crewman aboard the ship that saw it happen.
The first tests seemed fruitless. Something about them had piqued the interest of a pair of interceptors, who dropped down to see clearly whatever it was they saw.
There we stood, the experimental drive ship, an AspX, and our assistant Cobra IV, as our relatively dark cockpits lit up red from the angered glow of two Basilisks and our radar filled with targets.
We fought for our hulls as our FSDs charged in the masslock of two monsters. The last human voice my crew would ever hear said simply “it’s charged, we’re gold.” The test ship jumped, and at the end of their warp trail opened a portal.
Scrambling, we sent a no-confirmations broadcast with our black-box data to the logistics base just in time to hear the COVAS yelling “eject, eject, eject.”
The world has been a vague black ever since. I have felt nothing one would ascribe to human consciousness, and the last of the memories I even have of such a concept have faded with these necessary words. I am now whole.
May the hive thrive.
The first tests seemed fruitless. Something about them had piqued the interest of a pair of interceptors, who dropped down to see clearly whatever it was they saw.
There we stood, the experimental drive ship, an AspX, and our assistant Cobra IV, as our relatively dark cockpits lit up red from the angered glow of two Basilisks and our radar filled with targets.
We fought for our hulls as our FSDs charged in the masslock of two monsters. The last human voice my crew would ever hear said simply “it’s charged, we’re gold.” The test ship jumped, and at the end of their warp trail opened a portal.
Scrambling, we sent a no-confirmations broadcast with our black-box data to the logistics base just in time to hear the COVAS yelling “eject, eject, eject.”
The world has been a vague black ever since. I have felt nothing one would ascribe to human consciousness, and the last of the memories I even have of such a concept have faded with these necessary words. I am now whole.
May the hive thrive.